Monday, November 5, 2018

Now, We Return You to Your Regularly Scheduled Worship.

Early
morning, Fam…

So, at
church yesterday, we had the readings like usual, then, the gospel.Sometimes we get it, sometimes we don’t.Sometimes we agree, other times we don’t.After the gospel, comes the homily that’s
supposed to explain the gospel message.

THEN, there’s
the commercials.

These’re the
homilies that are essentially Mon Signor telling us why we need to give the
church money under the guise of sacrificing.He’ll even go further by telling us why we could give more than we
already are.Of course, he makes our
gifts feel more like an obligation, which is still a sacrifice, but now it
feels coerced instead of a gift.Hmmm.

Let me get
this right, you’re going to give me a backhanded welcome for the gift I put in
the collection basket while suggesting I give more?I THOUGHT gifting was something you did
because you WANTED to, NOT because we’re told it’s not so veiled “expected”?Hmmm.

This is the
whole homily.

Most good
people’ll naturally give, because well, they’re good people, not because they’re
directed to under the guise of being Godly.

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